2008 World Karate Championships

2008 World Karate Championships
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	13–16 November
Main venue	Nippon Budokan
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The 2008 World Karate Championships are the 19th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tokyo, Japan from November 13 to November 16, 2008.^[1]

Medalists[edit]

Men[edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi Italy	Antonio Díaz Venezuela	Vu Duc Minh Dack France
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi Italy	Antonio Díaz Venezuela	Mustafa Ibrahim Egypt
Team kata	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol	Japan	Peru Jimmy Moreno Akio Tamashiro Hafid Zevallos
Team kata	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol	Japan	Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi
Kumite −60 kg	Danil Domdjoni Croatia	Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan	Hossein Rouhani Iran
Kumite −60 kg	Danil Domdjoni Croatia	Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan	Douglas Brose Brazil
Kumite −65 kg	George Kotaka United States	Ádám Kovács Hungary	William Rollé France
Kumite −65 kg	George Kotaka United States	Ádám Kovács Hungary	Takuro Nihei Japan
Kumite −70 kg	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Tamer Abdelraouf Egypt	Saeed Baghbani Canada
Kumite −70 kg	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Tamer Abdelraouf Egypt	Shinji Nagaki Japan
Kumite −75 kg	David Dubó Chile	Müslüm Baştürk Turkey	Mohamed Abdelrahman Egypt
Kumite −75 kg	David Dubó Chile	Müslüm Baştürk Turkey	Ko Matsuhisa Japan
Kumite −80 kg	Satoshi Ibuchi Japan	Islamutdin Eldaruchev Russia	Hany Shakr Egypt
Kumite −80 kg	Satoshi Ibuchi Japan	Islamutdin Eldaruchev Russia	Alibek Prenov Kazakhstan
Kumite +80 kg	Stefano Maniscalco Italy	Ibrahim Gary France	Calum Robb Scotland
Kumite +80 kg	Stefano Maniscalco Italy	Ibrahim Gary France	Jonathan Horne Germany
Kumite open	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Spyridon Margaritopoulos Greece	Stefano Maniscalco Italy
Kumite open	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Spyridon Margaritopoulos Greece	Gogita Arkania Georgia
Team kumite	Turkey Okay Arpa Yusuf Başer Müslüm Baştürk Zeki Demir Yücel Dündoğdu Murat Salih Kurnaz Yaser Şahintekin	Serbia Slobodan Bitević Stefan Ivanović Dimitrije Jerković Miloš Jovanović Vladan Rudić Vranić Dejan Umičević Miloš Živković	Egypt
Team kumite			Spain Iván Leal Adrián Martínez Francisco Martínez Óscar Martínez Cristian Rodríguez Antonio Sánchez Óscar Vázquez

Women[edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Vietnam	Sara Battaglia Italy	Kasuga Wakabayashi Japan
Individual kata	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Vietnam	Sara Battaglia Italy	Marija Madžarević Serbia
Team kata	Japan	France Clotilde Boulanger Céline Chevalier Sonia Fiuza	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Samantha Piccolo
Team kata	Japan	France Clotilde Boulanger Céline Chevalier Sonia Fiuza	Spain Fátima de Acuña Ruth Jiménez Almudena Muñoz
Kumite −53 kg	Natsuki Fujiwara Japan	Kora Knühmann Germany	Gülderen Çelik Turkey
Kumite −53 kg	Natsuki Fujiwara Japan	Kora Knühmann Germany	Elena Ponomareva Russia
Kumite −60 kg	Maria Sobol Russia	Nassim Varasteh Canada	Katarina Strika Serbia
Kumite −60 kg	Maria Sobol Russia	Nassim Varasteh Canada	Vildan Doğan Turkey
Kumite +60 kg	Tiffany Fanjat France	Elisa Au-Fonseca United States	Evgenia Podborodnikova Russia
Kumite +60 kg	Tiffany Fanjat France	Elisa Au-Fonseca United States	Cristina Feo Spain
Kumite open	Yuka Sato Japan	Gloria Casanova Spain	Ema Aničić Croatia
Kumite open	Yuka Sato Japan	Gloria Casanova Spain	Eva Tulejová-Medveďová Slovakia
Team kumite	Germany Yasmina Benadda Kora Knühmann Silvia Sperner Maria Weiß	Spain Gloria Casanova Irene Colomar Cristina Feo Carmen Vicente	Italy Selene Guglielmi Roberta Minet Laura Pasqua Greta Vitelli
Team kumite			France Nadège Ait-Ibrahim Tiffany Fanjat Alexandra Recchia Ruth Soufflet

Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (Japan)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan*	4	1	4	9
2	France	2	2	3	7
3	Italy	2	1	4	7
4	Azerbaijan	2	0	0	2
5	Russia	1	1	2	4
5	Turkey	1	1	2	4
7	Germany	1	1	1	3
8	United States	1	1	0	2
9	Croatia	1	0	1	2
10	Chile	1	0	0	1
10	Vietnam	1	0	0	1
12	Spain	0	2	3	5
13	Egypt	0	1	4	5
14	Serbia	0	1	2	3
15	Canada	0	1	1	2
15	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
17	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
20	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
	Scotland	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		17	17	34	68